27: Raynare

"Haha, to think that you would fall in love with a human," Raynare chuckled disdainfully. Just like many other supernatural beings, she looked down on the human race.

After all, they were weak, their lifespans pitifully short, and most lacked any real battle strength. The only exceptions were the rare Sacred Gear holders.

Kalawarna hurried to get up. Because she moved in a panic, she nearly slipped and fell to the ground due to the huge puddle of love juice beneath her. Without caring how she looked, she stared at Raynare with a frenzied expression, "Were you following me!?"

Raynare took two steps forward, moving closer to her. She leaned over, touching her own lips with her slender finger. "Of course, you've been suspiciously busy recently. That sparked my curiosity." The smirk on her face made Kalawarna feel a strong sense of danger.

"I am free to do whatever I want until the day of the ceremony, and whoever I am with is none of your business," Kalawarna instinctively moved to block the view behind her and spoke with a tough tone. She sensed that Raynare was here for something bad. She was up to no good, and Kalawarna certainly did not want to implicate Yusuke.

"Kalawarna, relax, we are teammates and friends, you don't have to be so vigilant. I don't care about who you fell in love with," Raynare took another step forward and tapped Kalawarna's shoulder with her hand, speaking with that cocky smirk on her face, "I'm just curious about the charming man that stole your heart."

Swoosh!

Kalawarna shoved Raynare away, and a spear of light suddenly appeared in her hand. Her eyes glowed with a maddening glint as she pointed the spear at her and said in an extremely cold voice, "Raynare, I don't care about your games, but don't involve Yusuke in this. If anything happens to him, I won't stop at anything to fucking kill you!"

She could swallow anything else. After all, Raynare was stronger than her and had been appointed their leader. But when it came to Yusuke, she wouldn't care about any of that! She would do everything in her power to protect him, even if it cost her life!

"Hmm, so his name is Yusuke, what a boring name~" Raynare didn't seem fazed by her aggression. Instead, she looked even more interested in the man who made Kalawarna act so desperately. "Alright, alright! I won't do anything to him. I was just here to satisfy my curiosity."

'I'll check later, hehe~' Raynare chuckled, teasing Kalawarna enough. She was about to turn and leave when suddenly the window of the opposite building opened, and a man's figure entered her vision.

"Yusuke," Kalawarna gasped, startled as she stared at the man looking down at the street with his phone in hand.

'So this is Yusuke... Ara~? What is this feeling?' Raynare's eyes locked onto his face, a strange new sensation blooming in her heart, one she had never experienced before. Her heartbeat quickened wildly. This should have been an uncomfortable feeling, yet somehow it blanked her mind with ecstasy, as if she had finally found the missing piece of a puzzle, the secret to becoming whole.

"Is this your Prince Charming?" Raynare dropped her usual mocking smile and replaced it with a strangely friendly one. She strolled over and wrapped her arm around Kalawarna's shoulder in an overly familiar way. Even though she couldn't quite grasp this sudden, strange feeling, her curiosity about Yusuke had reached its peak.

She wanted to know everything about him. And who better to ask than her best friend, Kalawarna?

Ara... since when did she become her best friend? Oh well, who cares anyway.

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Yusuke felt stuffy in his room and decided to open the window, letting in a bit of that sweet, fresh exhaust fume air from the streets below.

"Tell me, when am I going to get some actually cool skills? Like The World or Limitless?" he asked the system while lazily watching cars roll by.

[I don′t know. Maybe if you tame a Maou-level Yandere.]

"You mean there's a female Maou in this world?" Yusuke was surprised by the sudden random information. Then his eyes widened. "Fuck! Why are you so confident she's gonna be one of those Yanderes!?"

[I am not. I am only replying to your question. Additionally, I said Maou-level yandere, not necessarily a Maou.] The system answered slowly.

[Please don't forget that yanderes are extremely ra—]

"Bullshit! I'd be a real idiot if I believed you! It hasn't even been three days, and I'm already entangled with three of them. Who knows if tomorrow a new one will pop up!?" Yusuke wanted to grab the bitch system and slap her butt for misleading him.

[It's not my fault this world is weird. Or that you're just unlucky enough that all the yanderes gathered in one place.]

The system tried to defend itself, but her argument sounded weak.

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"Yu-kun~!"

The next day, Yusuke ran into Murayama on the way to school. Her overly enthusiastic shout turned every head around them. She was radiating such intense happiness that it felt like she could power a space station with just her mood.

"Murayama," Yusuke greeted with a strained smile as she latched onto him. He'd ordered her to stop calling him 'master', it was too embarrassing, too weird, and definitely not something he wanted explaining to her parents during a school meeting.

"Yu-kun~ I missed you soooo much~ Haah~ Haaah~" She nuzzled violently into his chest, inhaling deeply. "Your scent is intoxicating~"

Ignoring the stares from passing students, Yusuke blankly stared down at her. "What are you doing?"

"Recharging my Yu-energy!" she declared dreamily, tightening her octopus-like grip.

Without the camera and microphone to spy on him, Murayama felt like she hadn't seen him in ages, even though they'd just parted yesterday.

"You're really hopeless," Yusuke said. Her reply made him pause. Something stirred in his chest. He chuckled and patted her head. "But cute as well."

After taming both Aika and Murayama, Yusuke finally had some time to think about how to treat Murayama moving forward. After all, he couldn't keep treating her like trash forever; it wouldn't be sustainable for either of them.

Besides, even though she had done many things like spying on him and trying to kidnap him, though she failed, this Murayama wasn't the one who turned him into a human stick. So Yusuke felt conflicted. Part of him hated her because he knew she could have done the same as her future counterpart, but another part wanted to open up to her since she hadn't crossed that line yet.

"C-cute!? Master called me cute, hehehehehe~" Murayama's eyes sparkled into heart shapes as she shuddered from Yusuke's praise, hugging him tightly while giggling like an idiot.

Yusuke let out a faint smile, watching her cling to him with that adorable face, and thought quietly, 'Let's just leave this matter to time.'

Passing through the school gate, Yusuke spotted Tsubaki Shinra again. She stood there sternly, inspecting the school uniforms, but this time, he noticed her eyes kept drifting to him. When she saw Murayama clinging to him, her gaze turned sharp and cold. With his enhanced hearing, Yusuke could even swear he heard the faint crackling of her knuckles.

'You can't judge people by their looks alone,' Yusuke thought to himself, shaking his head. His first impression of her was that she was a diligent and strict senior, but after what he saw in the locker room, that image completely crumbled. Watching her masturbate on his clothes like a starved nympho. It was not what he expected.

"Murayama, you go ahead to the classroom. I need to pay my taxes," Yusuke said as he walked past the gate, peeling away from her grasp.

"Pay your taxes?" Murayama gave him a confused look.

"It means I need to go to the toilet," Yusuke clarified.

"Then, do you want me to go with you?! I can give you a good blowjob now! I spent the whole night yesterday practicing to improve my skills!" Murayama's eyes gleamed as she stared at his crotch with terrifying enthusiasm.

"No!" Yusuke's dick twitched, but he refused flatly. He reached out and patted her head again. "Let's wait until the break, alright?"

"Hmm," Murayama narrowed her eyes as he patted her head.

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Another thing Yusuke liked about this school was its clean, spacious bathrooms. Unlike the cramped, reeking toilets from his past life's school, these didn't have that suffocating stench or piss-stained floors.

After paying his 'water bills', Yusuke rinsed his hands and stepped out of the bathroom. However, he had only taken a few steps when Tsubaki Shinra appeared in front of him, stopping him in his tracks. "Yusuke-san, can I have a word with you?"

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